Dubia/Cricket bin clean up crew?

[webghost]

Anyone ever used/heard of this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150689456644?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_1161wt_1389

I just want to know if this really works... anyone?

Thanks.

 

[jmwhitel]

Seems like what goes in, must come out. So any feeding insect will create waste. But I honestly dont know


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[shaunaroxanne]

But those guys have to poop too, right? So you would still have to clean that up wouldn't you?

 

[Sticktongue]

But those guys have to poop too, right? So you would still have to clean that up wouldn't you?

Thats what i was thinking too.. Maybe someone should be a Guinea pig for us all and try it out

 

[pssh]

They are more for keeping it smell free and what not. I prefer 'buffalo' worms or A. diaperinus. Less creepy and they are also a food source for chameleons.

I have guinea pigs?

Edit: whoops, I read that as 'get a guinea pig.' haha

 

[Sticktongue]

They are more for keeping it smell free and what not. I prefer 'buffalo' worms or A. diaperinus. Less creepy and they are also a food source for chameleons.

I have guinea pigs?

Edit: whoops, I read that as 'get a guinea pig.' haha

Do your buffalo worms help to keep the smell down quite a bit? Do they re produce or do you have to buy new ones every so often? Do explain please and where you got them from. I'd be interested in buying some if it actually works

 

[pssh]

I sold some a few weeks ago. I'm letting my colonies grow a bit more but I have some extras.

I got them in a roach shipment from another person (can't remember who, as it was at least a year ago.) They reproduce all by themselves in the roach bins. My roaches don't have a smell, but they do help to eat the dead ones and keep cricket stink down. My baby chameleons LOVE them!

 

[Rottsko]

Are those the same as those little black worms that we get with large cricket orders? If it is, I dont think it's bad to have but I'd still clean the bin often...especially cricket bins. The roach bins u don't have to clean as often.

 

[EvilLost]

I find it very shady that the ad doesn't list what it is actually selling...its just some vague description.


My dubias don't smell at all and I clean it out once a month personally....


and since dubia have a 2+ year lifespan, there are rarely any dead roaches in the tub...they aren't crickets. I've found maybe a total of 5 dead roaches in my tub in the almost year i've been breeding them (my colony is ~25 females, 15 males, hundreds of little guys)

 

[reptoman]

I have tons of what appear to be small brown beetles in my dubia bins. They came in with some I traded up to get new genetics to my colonies and they multipliled like crazy. Has anyone seen these in their colonies? They look like a click beetle but half the size of a grain of rice.

 

[Captive Creations]

those things give me the creeps just looking at them

 

[pssh]

Those little beetles, are they reddish? If they are, they are probably flour beetles

 

[reptoman]

This is the beetle I am talking about.

 

[Rottsko]

This is the beetle I am talking about.

I haven't had these before. I've had some black worm looking thing in my cricket bins tho.

 

[MamaD]

The little black beetles you find in cricket orders are domestic beetles. They put them in there to eat the dead crickets. Harmless. Never heard of the cleaning crew thingamajig. I breed dubia roaches and have never had to use anything like that. Dubia live much longer than crickets therefore, fewer dead ones and less smell. Not really a good thing to receive an order of dubia with any kind of larvae or beetles. Dubia have kind of an "earthy" smell. As for their poo, its called frass. They give live birth and the babies will eat the frass until they are big enough to eat gut load. If kept properly, dubia are super easy to care for. I only have to clean my colonies once a month and its not that big of a deal to do so. I feed my chams these, crickets, superworms, etc.. Good to mix it up.

 

[pssh]

Looks like a flour beetle to me. The larvae make good feeders for small animals (like babies and poison dart frogs!)

 

[chameleongirl2]

i prefer goliath worms.. yummmmy

 

[JonRich]

This is the beetle I am talking about.

Looks like a flour beetle to me. The larvae make good feeders for small animals (like babies and poison dart frogs!)

That is a Flour Beetle. They can and will get into your grain based food (flour, pasta, rice etc).. And because of their size it's veryyyy hard to get rid of them. It just took me about a month to get rid of some. They were all in my cabinets, and the larva stage is soo small it's hard to notice them unless you are really looking. I usually float rice before i cook, and there was at one point about 20 beetles and god knows how many grubs/worms in one bag of rice. I had to resort to freezing all the grains i had and then tossing them out and cleaning my cabinets of anything loose they can eat. STARVE THEM OUT!

I just got a B.Dubias order in with them. I had to sit in my bathtub and pick out each Dubia (500+) by hand to make sure they did'nt have any Flour Beetles hanging on to them, then kill ALL the Beetles left in the bin with Clorox.

I would rather the Dermested beetles over Flour Beetles ANYDAY!!

 

[MamaD]

Oops! Spelled it wrong didn't I?! I agree, any of those beetle larva are a pain in the bum to see. Like little eyelashes. Grrrr...hate them!